but I had conflated it with Twilight Zone in my memory. They are certainly neighbors.
In the way normal life can suddenly slip sideways into some terrifying elsewhere, absolutely. I think of The Twilight Zone as more explicitly television of ideas, though: I'm not saying that Sapphire & Steel doesn't have them, because I've been talking about almost nothing else in the shower for days, but it's much more of a mood piece. Assignment 3 would make a good Twilight Zone. Assignment 2 would not.
Has David McCallum ever been filmed with any other hairstyle?
I think he's parted it differently over the years, but essentially no. It's looked good on him since 1963, though, so I'm not going to tell him to change it.
Another neighbor, lying much closer to this storyline, is Time Bandits (1981), but the Criterion essay doesn't notice it
Oh, interesting. I have not seen that. It feels like a descendant of Sapphire & Steel?
Fritz Leiber's The Big Time (1958) and other stories of the Change War did occur to me as a potential antecedent. Writing that out made me realize that Poul Anderson's The Corridors of Time (1966) may underlie Sapphire's description of Time as a corridor in Assignment 1. Neither is directly analogous in that (so far as we know) the incursions on the structure of Time in Sapphire & Steel are not organized, but I wouldn't be surprised if they're in the DNA somewhere.
None of this zapping through portals that just plop you anywhere, you had a proper English corridor you went along and you had a chance to get your clothes straightened out and check that the ID in your wallet said the right thing before you landed. It was a marked improvement on the puddles-in-a-forest method used by the Edwardians as it gave the traveler some idea of where he was going.
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In the way normal life can suddenly slip sideways into some terrifying elsewhere, absolutely. I think of The Twilight Zone as more explicitly television of ideas, though: I'm not saying that Sapphire & Steel doesn't have them, because I've been talking about almost nothing else in the shower for days, but it's much more of a mood piece. Assignment 3 would make a good Twilight Zone. Assignment 2 would not.
Has David McCallum ever been filmed with any other hairstyle?
I think he's parted it differently over the years, but essentially no. It's looked good on him since 1963, though, so I'm not going to tell him to change it.
Another neighbor, lying much closer to this storyline, is Time Bandits (1981), but the Criterion essay doesn't notice it
Oh, interesting. I have not seen that. It feels like a descendant of Sapphire & Steel?
Fritz Leiber's The Big Time (1958) and other stories of the Change War did occur to me as a potential antecedent. Writing that out made me realize that Poul Anderson's The Corridors of Time (1966) may underlie Sapphire's description of Time as a corridor in Assignment 1. Neither is directly analogous in that (so far as we know) the incursions on the structure of Time in Sapphire & Steel are not organized, but I wouldn't be surprised if they're in the DNA somewhere.
None of this zapping through portals that just plop you anywhere, you had a proper English corridor you went along and you had a chance to get your clothes straightened out and check that the ID in your wallet said the right thing before you landed. It was a marked improvement on the puddles-in-a-forest method used by the Edwardians as it gave the traveler some idea of where he was going.
I approve of this entire footnote.